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Why
Vietnam's
best-known author has stayed silent
Fifteen years after Bao Ninh's admired war novel, he
explains his fears about publishing a sequel
Suzanne Goldenberg in
Hanoi
Sunday November 19, 2006
The Observer
It was a soldier's story, set in battlefields of rotted
corpses and the tortured soul of a young teenager who went off to serve
his
country, and when the novel was published in 1991 it brought Bao Ninh
the
closest thing in
Vietnam
to instant literary celebrity.
Ninh never published again - although he is believed to have
finished another novel about the war, called Steppe, that he has
hesitated to
submit for publication.
Tại sao nhà văn nổi tiếng Bảo Ninh im tiếng sau cuốn đầu tay?
Could it have been different?
Eric Hobsbawm
JOURNEY TO A REVOLUTION:
A PERSONAL MEMOIR AND HISTORY OF THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION OF 1956
by Michael Korda.
HarperCollins, 221 pp., $24.95, September, o 06 0772611
TWELVE DAYS: REVOLUTION 1956
by Victor Sebestyen.
Weidenfeld, 340 pp., £20, August, o 297 84731 j
A GOOD COMRADE: JANOS KADAR,
COMMUNISM AND HUNGARY
by Roger Gough.
Tauris, 323 pp., £24.50, August, 1845110587
FAILED ILLUSIONS:
MOSCOW, WASHINGTON, BUDAPEST AND THE 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLT
by Charles Gati.
Stanford, 264 pp., $24.95, Sept.
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY is
useless unless it allows emotion to be recollected in tranquillity.
Probably no episode in 20th-century history generated a more intense
burst of feeling in the Western world than the Hungarian uprising 0^956.
Although it lasted less than two weeks, it was both a classic instance
of the narrative of justified popular insurrection against oppressive
government, familiar since the fall of the Bastille, and of David's in
this case doomed victory against Goliath.
Liệu có thể khác đi không?
Điểm sách London nhìn lại Cách Mạng Hung qua những
sách mới xb
Nhà thơ TTT cũng đã nhìn thấy ở Cách Mạng Hung, như
vậy (1), và tự hỏi, liệu có thể khác ?
(1) Lịch sử đương thời sẽ vô dụng chỉ trừ khi nó khiến xúc động được
thu gom. Trong im ả.
Xúc động nào khiến nhà thơ Việt Nam, liền sau khi Cách Mạng Hung xẩy
ra, viết Quốc Tế Ca về nó, trong khi, tới bây giờ, lịch sử mới gọi ra
được cái tên của nó: Một cuộc cách mạng đạo đức ?
Tưởng Niệm Cách Mạng Hung